By Kate DaileyBBC News Magazine Life prison are rare in the UK but common in the US. Why is this punishment so prevalent in the US? Last week, an English court handed a whole-life sentence to Dale Cregan for murdering four people, including… Continue Reading →
Published: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Gail Alexander Only for the most extreme cases. That’s part of Government’s continuing stance on the death penalty, which remains on T&T law books and which currently applies to 30 persons on Death Row—including one female. Speaking… Continue Reading →
By Sanjoy Majumder BBC News, Kanpur Vijay Kumari was unable to post the necessary bail amount of about £120 In a dusty tenement in a crowded neighbourhood in the Indian city of Kanpur, a young man takes out a bright… Continue Reading →
Mumbai, Majlis Team , March 31,, 2013 As fourteen year old Priya had not been getting her periods for some months, her mother took her to Shatabdi, a public Hospital in the nearby area, for a check up. During examination… Continue Reading →
PRESS RELEASE, NAGPUR , MARCH 21, 2013 Numerous countries across the world have abolished the death sentence as a form of punishment. However India, claimed repeatedly by its rulers to be a democratic country still retains this inhuman practice and… Continue Reading →
March 12, 2013 ,http://www.srai.org According to Amnesty International, 140 countries have abolished the death penalty. In 2012, only one country, Latvia, abolished the death penalty for all crimes. In 2011, 21 countries around the world were known to… Continue Reading →
ELIZABETH BARRETT , TIM SCULTHORPE THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2013, The Independent The British Government should use “every mechanism of communication” to urge India to end the death penalty, a Labour MP has said. John McDonnell said Britain was “uniquely placed” with its… Continue Reading →
Published: Friday, Feb 8, 2013, 9:30 IST By Mustafa Plumber & Dilnaz Boga | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court has upheld the conviction of 20 men in the case of a minor who was drugged… Continue Reading →
By Swati Deshpande, TNN | Feb 7, 2013, MUMBAI: Legal experts and human and women’s rights activists have expressed dismay over a reasoning given by the Supreme Court while upholding a death sentence in a 2007 case of kidnapping and murder of a… Continue Reading →
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